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Greater Cambridge Partnership’s Waterbeach to Cambridge busway project to be discussed




Plans for a new off-road busway between Waterbeach New Town and Cambridge will be discussed next week.

The proposed scheme would deliver a dedicated busway alongside a new walking and cycling route to provide fast, frequent and reliable journeys between Waterbeach New Town and north Cambridge via Landbeach.

A preferred route has been chosen for the Waterbeach to Cambridge busway Picture: Keith Heppell
A preferred route has been chosen for the Waterbeach to Cambridge busway Picture: Keith Heppell

A new travel hub would also give people travelling along the A10 the option to leave their cars outside the city and continue their onward journey on public transport.

It is proposed that a maintenance track alongside the busway would be used as a new walking and cycling route, which would link in with other routes and transport hubs.

The Greater Cambridge Partnership’s executive board agreed in September to take forward the revised central route, which serves Landbeach, and site option C for the travel hub to the west of the new town of Waterbeach. These decisions were taken following two public consultations between 2020 and 2023.

A petition was launched by the Cambridge Independent and signed by almost 1,700 people in support of the villagers in Waterbeach after it was discovered that three of the four initially proposed routes would go directly through a small group of historic cottages.

The GCP joint assembly will discuss the plans on Wednesday, 16 October, before it goes to the body’s executive board next month.

If approved by the board, the GCP will ask Cambridgeshire County Council – as the highways authority – to submit a Transport & Works Act Order (TWAO) application to the government for permission to progress the scheme.



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